Author: Joe Leavey

Having been raised in Oxfordshire and taught to appreciate all things sporting from a young age, Joe’s prowess on the field never quite matched his voracious appetite for consuming as much sport as possible off it.
Joe is a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of Birmingham, where he completed his undergraduate degree in English Literature & American Studies. Always a far more adept viewer than participant, although not for a lack of trying, Joe became heavily involved in student radio whilst at Birmingham. He served as Deputy Head of Sport, hosting regular shows on various topics and recording weekly commentaries on University sport as well as writing for the station website.
A long time fan of Arsenal, Joe has been going to the Emirates for nearly 10 years, whilst a year of studying in America helped to cement an interest in Baseball and the Chicago Cubs. Work experience at ITV, where he wrote a piece for the website, Seven League and Aser Media among others has helped Joe to gain a greater contextual understanding of the industry as a whole, and he is now studying for an MA in Sports Journalism at St Mary’s.

The debate surrounding sport’s unbreakable records always provides a fascinating microcosmic insight into the nature of competition at the highest level. Today marks the anniversary of perhaps one of the most enduring statistics in the world of professional sport: Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game.
To speculate on the nature of sporting records,

Seth Burkett was the first Englishman to have played professional football in Brazil. Sports Gazette caught up with him to find out about his incredible story, and what life is like in the land of the Seleção.
Brazil. The spiritual home of football. A nation that has won five World Cups

With Major League Baseball Spring Training just around the corner, it isn’t long before America’s Game returns to our screens for the summer months.
Whilst the sport’s history means that it is completely synonymous with the States in a way that American Football and Basketball perhaps aren’t, Baseball is yet to

The FA Cup returns this weekend, and the tie of the second round sees Isthmian League Premier Division Leatherhead - the lowest ranked side left in the competition - go to Adams Park to face Wycombe Wanderers. Sports Gazette spoke to the Tanners goalkeeper Zaki Oualah ahead of their biggest

“Something happened that everybody said was impossible.”
These were the words of Lee Dixon, speaking at the premiere of 89, a new documentary film that tells the story of Arsenal’s fabled last-minute league win over Liverpool in 1989.
Dixon - an executive producer of the film and full back in that championship

As the curtain falls on another season of Baseball, with the Houston Astros crowned World Series winners, the Sports Gazette takes a look back on what was a memorable season in the MLB.
The World Series
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Where to start but the Fall Classic? This year Baseball’s biggest prize certainly lived up to

This week marks the beginning of the end of one of sport’s most complicated qualification processes.
The Paris Masters is the ninth and final ATP Masters 1000 tour event, the third tier of men’s professional tennis behind Grand Slams and the upcoming ATP World Tour Finals.
To backtrack, the ATP (Association of

The Milk/Littlewoods/Rumbelows/Coca-Cola/Worthington/Carling/Capital One/Carabao Cup, otherwise known as the League Cup, is English football’s secondary knockout cup competition, and surely its most derided. This year in particular, the trophy has been subjected to an array of criticism, mainly surrounding a couple of admittedly farcical draws. Whilst this has led many to

On 17th October 2004, Lionel Messi replaced Deco in the 82nd minute of Barcelona's 1-0 away win at Espanyol. This weekend, 13 years on, Messi will likely play a more significant role in his side’s first big test of the league season: an away trip to Atletico Madrid
Messi’s week thus

With the European Championship of Bowls coming to a close on Friday, here at the Sports Gazette we consider the joys of watching some of the world’s slower sports.
Whilst we view Football, Rugby and Tennis players as quasi-Superheroes with unattainable physiques and skill-sets, some of the stars of Baseball, Curling,